Building Walts Dream

Take a few minutes out of your day and have a look at this footage of Disneyland being built, it is just excelent. It is 50 minutes of nostalgia, flashback to the very first moments of Disneyland with Walt Disney pacing off the site and proceeds through the year via time-lapse video until the park is ready for opening day. This footage was sitting on a shelf all these years and only saved by a curious employee now it is available on DVD and with clips here courtesy of YouTube.com

We have footage of Walt, Marvin Davis, Dick Irvine, and Roy Disney (seldom seen in photos) on the site. You really get to see how Walt already had the park in his mind and everything else was just details. Commentary is by Tony Baxter, Ed Hobleman, and Walter Magnuson.

The film has also bee released as a DVD compilation along with a lot of other nice features. Available from Amazon.com it is called Walt Disney Treasures - Disneyland - Secrets, Stories & Magic

Enjoy